Kate DiCamillo Quotes
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I hate to cook and love to eat.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his mother, when he and his father move to a new town. And two things happen the same day that Rob gets sent home. One is he meets a girl named Sistine Bailey, who is what my mother would call "a piece of work," and he finds a real tiger in a cage in the woods behind the motel where he lives with his dad. And that's the story: what happens with the Sistine tiger, the real tiger and Rob's grief.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.
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Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)
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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
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I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents will never show up. That would mess up the fun. I do, however, very much like Kate's idea of having Tony [Fucile] draw their portraits.
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My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
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If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.
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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.
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When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.
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I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.
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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.
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I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
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